Bill Sardithe vitamin supplement answer man

Vitamin K, that essential but often avoided “blood clotting” vitamin that we consume in green leafy vegetables is generally not included in multivitamins and avoided by the many thousands of patients taking blood thinners. The “often-avoided” category speaks for the ongoing insanity within modern medicine.

But those numbers are certainly nothing to brag about. Most of the people at risk for death from atrial fibrillation-induced blood clots, that are thrown from the heart and block circulation to the brain, still occur despite the use of blood thinners and exposes patients to the danger of bleeding from over-use of the drugs. While it is said that the benefits associated with the use of blood thinners outweigh these risks, a major bleeding episode occurs among 1.3% to 7.2% of patients given blood thinners annually. Since millions of Americans are taking these drugs, that represents thousands of drug-induced hemorrhages.

Bottom line, modern medicine treats atrial fibrillation as if it were a drug deficiency. When said this way, the use of these drugs sounds ridiculous.

What causes atrial fibrillation?

While vitamin K-blocking drugs are effectively used to prevent strokes, they don’t address what causes atrial fibrillation. In fact, the use of vitamin K-antagonists such as coumadin and aspirin, has simply led to disease substitution. A shortage of vitamin K leads to weakened bones.

The most recent vitamin K science involves the remarkable discovery that vitamin K2 is an antioxidant of sorts and donates electrons like many well- known antioxidants. In particular, vitamin K2 works like ubiquinone (aka coenzyme Q10) inside cellular power plants called mitochondria. This is quite a revelation! Science Magazine noted this discovery with a special report entitled “Vitamin K Takes Charge.”

Natural blood thinners as alternatives

The question arises, why don’t physicians utilize natural blood thinners that appear to be safer and more affordable? But these natural blood thinners have been unfairly demonized. Physicians have been advised to warn their patients taking blood thinners, specifically to avoid vitamin E, fish oil and garlic supplements which may complicate drug therapy.